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Batteries and Portable Power
Medis Technologies Receives Notice of Allowance
Medis Technologies Ltd. (New York) announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent Office with respect to its application for a patent for a new class of electro-catalysts for fuel cells. The invention relates to a new class of electro-catalysts based on highly electro-conductive polymers that have transition metal atoms […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Energy Visions Announces Year-End Results
Energy Visions Inc. (Ottawa, ON) announced that the company's board of directors have approved the audited consolidated financial statements of the corporation for the year ended September 30, 2001, and anticipate filing the statements in the US and in Canada in mid January 2002. The corporation reported consolidated revenues of $140,951, approximately 38 percent below […]
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Communications Power
Insight MEMEC/Alpha Intros AS204-80 SP4T Switch
Insight MEMEC/Alpha Ind. (Hong Kong) presented the new AS204-80 GaAs IC SP4T switch, which combines high isolation to provide increased signal path separation, reducing RF leakage with non-reflecting ports to eliminate the need for external termination while providing a 50-ohm output impedance. Operating over the dc to 3.5GHz frequency range, the device provides a low […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Honeywell Reports $540 Million in Charges
Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, NJ) announced that it will take a $540.0 million charge against its fourth-quarter results to account for a patent litigation settlement and costs from the loss of a jet engine contract. Honeywell stated that excluding the charge, its fourth-quarter earnings would be in line with current expectations, and that the company […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
FuelCell Energy, Marubeni Announce Asian DFC
FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, CT) and Marubeni Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced the siting of the first Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plant in Asia at a Kirin brewery plant outside of Tokyo. Marubeni, FuelCell Energy's Asian partner, will supply a 250kW DFC power plant to Kirin's Toride brewery plant in the second quarter of 2002. The […]
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2.0KAutomotive ElectronicsNational Semiconductor Intros LM3485 Controller
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) introduced a new switching controller for power-management applications in displays, notebooks and information infrastructure, designed to...
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Batteries and Portable Power
AER Names Jack Durham as New CTO
Advanced Energy Research Corp. (AER, St. Petersburg, FL) announced the appointment of Jack Durham as CTO. Durham developed TrueFuel for AER, which is an alternative fuel similar to synthetic gas. Durham previously worked with the US Environmental Protection Agency for 27 years as a senior research chemist and science program manager. "Under my technological leadership, […]
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Power Components
Microsemi Receives Contract for Semiconductor Products
Microsemi Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced that it has received a $7.5 million, 18-month contract for its military/aerospace and in-flight entertainment products from Rockwell Collins Inc. The contract includes semiconductor devices from all of Microsemi's four major product categories: power management, RF/microwave and optoelectronics, transient protection, and power conditioning. "We continue to see long-term renewed strength […]
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Communications Power
Siemens Solar Debuts Earthsafe Solar-Electric System
Siemens Solar Industries LP (Camarillo, CA) announced its Earthsafe 20 solar-electric system. According to the company, this is the first complete standard system offered in the industry that converts solar power to utility power, provides emergency backup power, and includes all system functions in a single controller unit, which provides conversion from dc to ac, […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
H Power Announces Successful Fuel Cell Tests
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) announced that its products performed successfully in tests conducted by Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC, Johnstown, PA) on behalf of the US Air Force's (USAF) Air Expeditionary Force Battlelab (AEFB), Common Core Power Production (C2P2) Initiative. The US Air Force Battlelabs are chartered to demonstrate the military utility of existing technologies […]
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554Automotive ElectronicsGreenwich Electronics Unveils Aleph Switches
Greenwich Electronics Inc. (East Greenwich, RI) announced a new line of reed switches and relays for use in a variety of automotive,...
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1.7KPower QualitySatCon Power Systems Intros STARSINE UPS
SatCon Power Systems (Anaheim, CA) announced its STARSINE advanced rotary UPS that provides up to 12 seconds of battery-less ride-through for power...
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Batteries and Portable Power
AEP to Conduct Sodium Sulfur Battery Demonstration
American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, OH) will conduct the first US demonstration to test the combined power quality and peak shaving capabilities of the sodium sulfur (NAS) battery, an advanced electrical energy-storage technology that promises vast improvements over conventional batteries. The demonstration project is expected to be in service by mid-2002. The cost, performance and […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Second Call Issued for INTELEC 2002 Papers
A second call for papers has been issued for INTELEC 2002, which is to be held September 29 to October 3, 2002, in Montreal, Canada. Abstracts should accurately reflect the content of each proposed technical paper, and must be received by the program committee no later than January 18, 2002. The abstract should not be […]
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Automotive Electronics
ChevronTexaco, ECD Team on Solar Technologies
ChevronTexaco Corp. (San Francisco, CA) announced that its energy services subsidiary, Chevron Energy Solutions LP (Chevron ES), is collaborating with Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) to broaden the commercial application of flexible solar-electric roofing materials and high-performance NiMH batteries, as well as hydrogen storage systems and fuel cell technologies. Under a series of […]
